06/03/2024
It is with great sadness that the Face-to-Face fundraising sector lost one of its brightest stars.
Nick Berg, The Fundraising Partnerships CEO, who helped mold us to be the caring, passionate and cause focused company that we are, sadly passed away last week. He will be sadly missed by all who had the pleasure to have met him.
Nick was a true genius, he had a passion for reading, for knowledge (and for West Ham). He knew everything about everything, a true walking encyclopedia. Whether it was music or films, geography or politics or football and fundraising, Nick’s ability to real off stats, facts and genuinely interesting anecdotes meant that he had the ability to put anyone at ease and talk with them about subjects that they were comfortable discussing.
Apart from Nick’s love of reading and absorbing knowledge, he was extremely passionate about fundraising, but doing it the right way. He put our charity partners and our Fundraisers first with the knowledge that if you employ amazing, professional and passionate people who genuinely want to raise money for fabulous worthy causes then you were already a step ahead of the rest of the pack. His ability to devour data helped build and develop polices, processes and a way of working that put quality front and center.
Nick always said that he wanted The Fundraising Partnership to have excellence running through it like a stick of rock, a place where we weren’t afraid to push to be better both for our charity partners, the industry, the company and for us as people.
We will miss the chats, the motivation and mentoring, and the time he so generously gave to listen. We will miss the wonderful Christmas Jumpers that were worn all year round and are thankful for the little gifts that were delivered out of the blue as he’d sent us something out of his appreciation for what we were doing for the company he loved.
We are truly grateful to have worked with such an amazing human being. We will continue to push to be better, to improve, to follow the data and to be the best ambassadors we can. Nick’s legacy will live on in the millions he helped charities raise for care and in the DNA of our company as we will always ask ourselves ‘What would Nick have done?’
May he be forever blowing bubbles x